Initially, when you install an operating system in the virtual machine, the slave operating system relies on generic, slow drivers for the video, network, mouse, optical drive, and other peripherals. In order to get the greatest performance from these virtual machines, it is necessary to use special drivers from the virtual machine creators. VMWare makes it exceptionally difficult to get these drivers, which are called VMTools. They are only available in the for-pay versions of its software, notably the VMWare Workstation.

Extraction Workaround
Fortunately, there is a workaround to obtain those drivers. VMWare Workstation is available for Linux and Windows. Since Linux software is usually loosely packaged and unprotected in *.tar.gz files, it is easy to extract the driver files we’ll need for the specific operating system.